Saturday, May 1, 2010

It didn't hurt at ALL!

Giving Back that is!! Up at 6:30 and after getting a few things done around the house we headed out to do our civic duty and clean up the highway area. By 3:30pm we had nearly the whole 4 miles clean up and IT DIDN'T HURT AT ALL!

Civic duty, social duty, community work, volunteering, giving back...whatever you want to call it we really should all try it. It isn't like going to the doctor or dentist (other things we really all should do) but it DOESN'T HURT AT ALL!

Can you imagine how better this world and the people in the world would be if even 40% of everyone in the USA gave 3 hours of time a year for a cause? (The last census showed 26% of Americans Volunteer for at least 1 hour a year)

There are more than 309 million people in the US (34 million in Canada) and nearly 7 billion in the world. Doing the math calculation of possibilities is pretty amazing!
Remember 3 hours total for a year!

So 309 million x 40% = 123,600,000 people and if everyone did 3 hours of services that would be 370,800,000 million hours of FREE GOOD work!

Amazing! So what could we do with that many hours?

It takes about 900 hours to build a home so if 20% of the US gave 3 hours this year we could build over 412,000 homes for the homeless.

It takes approximately 10 minutes to plant a seedling tree so if the same held true there could be over 22,248,000,000 more trees for the next generation.

It takes 1 hour of work to make 30 packages of food at Feed my Starving Children. With all the time that means over 11 billion packages of food a year!

You get the picture right!

The question is are you going to be part of the 20%? You may not think you can't make a difference with the 3 hours a year, but look at the possibilities if you do and IT DOESN'T HURT AT ALL!

Be part of the 40% I promise It won't hurt at all!

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